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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings (Hardcover, Digital original) Loot Price: R3,302
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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings (Hardcover, Digital original): Michael Lackner, Nikola...

Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings (Hardcover, Digital original)

Michael Lackner, Nikola Chardonnens

Series: Chinese-Western Discourse

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Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: thereare affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Chinese-Western Discourse
Release date: May 2014
First published: 2014
Editors: Michael Lackner • Nikola Chardonnens
Dimensions: 155 x 230 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 271
Edition: Digital original
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-034642-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN: 3-11-034642-7
Barcode: 9783110346428

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